admin DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight
The agency bought two private prisons from CoreCivic—and more may follow.
Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative
The defense tech firm’s work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
The Democratic Party Failed Us With Graham Platner
In a quest to flip a Senate majority, the party focused on what Platner could contribute instead of listening to…
Trump’s “Personal Vendetta” Against Wind Is Messing With American Livelihoods
“Why take those jobs away?”
What Author and Poet Victoria Chang Learned From Trees
In her new poetry collection, Tree of Knowledge, mortality, home, and history are connected at the root
US Soccer Doesn’t Need a Big, Orange Thumb on the Scale
Three phone calls and one mysteriously cancelled red card later, we’ll never know if we could have won fairly.
In Defense of Taylor Swift’s Bad Taste
The superstar’s unabashed embrace of her corniness is refreshing in an age of “cool bride” sameness and AI-engineered taste buds.
Wall Street Just Won’t Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion
Major lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals.
“Morally reprehensible”: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires
What could possibly go wrong?
America’s 250th Birthday Will Be a Scorcher Not All Will Survive
Hours outdoors, day drinking, and World Cup matches raise the risk of heat-related illness and death.